The =EAST INDIAN AND COLONIAL DEPARTMENT= will embrace--I. CIVIL: The Government Lists of Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, and the Cape of Good Hope; lists of Civil Servants and their appointments, and of Judicial Establishments, with a detailed account of the Benefit Funds. II. MILITARY: Staff and Field Officers; distribution of the Army, including the Royal Troops; Ecclesiastical Establishment; and all Benefit Funds. III. COMMERCIAL: List of Mercantile Firms, Banks, Insurance Companies, Public Institutions, &c., in India and the Colonies; with the respective Tariffs, and Tables of Money, Weights, Measures, &c., and other miscellaneous information. London: Printed by STEWART and MURRAY, Old Bailey. FOOTNOTES: [A] Alluding to the “Wanderings” of Mr. Waterton; a very delightful and entertaining book, and not more marvellous than true. [B] Which singular circumstance occurred; the hands pointing to the hour on the dial-plate at half-past one o’clock, when the fire reached the machinery of the clock. [C] The original founder of the first Royal Exchange, Mr. Thomas Gresham, whose statue remains still entire. [D] This much admired statue, by Spiller, still stands in the centre of the piazza, on a pedestal uninjured. [E] The bells chimed, as usual, to the tune of “There’s nae luck aboot the house,” till within five minutes of the fire reaching that portion of the tower. [F] Written on the occasion of the loss of the “_Conqueror_,” East Indiaman, during the late gales off the Coast of France. [G] In the vicinity of Dover, lately destroyed by combustion, being from 300 to 400 feet in height, for the purposes of the South-Eastern Railway, under the direction of Mr. Cubitt, the engineer.